Trying to keep whitespace in a code block

Question

I'm trying to use markdown to format a web page. Part of the web page has block quotes and code blocks. In some of the code blocks, the leading and trailing white space (empty lines) is important. I can't find much on this and can't figure out how to include the leading and trailing empty lines.

> empty_line
> empty_line
> Stuff Here
> empty_line
> empty_line

.. if that makes any sense.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 03 '13 at 19:27

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If you can use HTML tags, have you tried using the pre tags?



Stuff 1 here





Stuff 2 here

I use pre at very top with HTML tag brackets of course and closed that tag at the bottom. Using this tag retains the blank lines + creates a code block as you see.

answered Apr 03 '13 at 19:27

Kaushal Modi

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This worked for me while putting an ASCII chart in my readme. Cheers! – Christopher Marshall Jul 29 '14 at 18:34

Trying to keep whitespace in a code block

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